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Alex Pretti's mother says the federal government lied about her son: "Not only was it wrong, it was shameful, unfair, [and] unacceptable," Susan Pretti said. "We want to clear our son's name. We want the world to understand who Alex really was."

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

Minnesota friends, if you haven’t already done it, this is your reminder to vote! You can check your registration and review a sample ballot for your district here: mnvotes.sos.mn.gov This election is a referendum on all the ways our state is being unfairly targeted, so make your voice heard.

Why are DL photos uniformly terrible? Ugh.

I’ll say it: it shows what disgusting pigs Americans are that they eat their cheesecake right there at the factory instead of waiting for it to be delivered to a store or restaurant

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

Walk-off FG MINNESOTA'S GOT A PIG

Floyd’s coming home!

these people are shameless!

Again, I keep coming back to @tressie.bsky.social saying, "The austerity university is the corporate university," or something close to that. Ringing in my ears as I read CHE on the UMN cuts. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

I've beaten this horse to death, but humans use stories to make sense of the world, and those narrative frameworks are both powerful and culturally inherited. These MFers want to live in the apocalypse, until they realize they don't have the spines to be the protagonist.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Skerritt, a durable character actor with roles in 'Picket Fences,' 'Alien' and 'Top Gun,' dies.

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

Trump's inability to distinguish between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans raises new questions about Joe Biden's advanced age.

Trans voter to @aoc.bsky.social: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that? AOC:

LOL. This stupid sport (complimentary) just gets stupider all the time (derogatory).

This is confusing, but it looks like a regional evacuation, probably with a view to US military action in the Middle East. At first, I thought the U.S. diplomats were being expelled or something!

As of yesterday — 2 weeks before Election Day — 9.3% of Minneapolitans had voted early. Often it’s Somali-American-heavy Ward 6 that leads the pack (pop-up center there today), but map looks like normal distribution, indicating early voting widespread. vote.minneapolismn.gov/results-data...

Cofiwch Aberfan. Remember Aberfan.

NEWS: Maryland has fired head coach Mike Locksley, @theathletic.com has learned. The first head coach firing of the cycle. Maryland is 2-5 this season.

I love Bouie columns that open with “important thing said by historian” (Steven Hahn) then applies that to the news then finds other historical analogies (Charles I, Emma Goldman). He’s an incredible public historian.

like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

I warned all y’all about Vivek mama. Just like I warned you about Bobby uncle and Nikki aunty and Usha akka. They’re all the same. Unfortunately.

I have greatly enjoyed watching America feel the same things I have felt about Vivek Ramaswamy since the fall of 2003

Watching an episode of chopped where the contestants are all teenagers and one girl was detailing her story about how she had to cook for the whole family after her mom died and the judge looked up from his plate and said “this swordfish is dry”

I don’t know how many of you have seen this already, but I cannot stop laughing. 😂 www.instagram.com/reel/DeNDVyv...

Very curious as to who paid for this ad as I think they might be the single worst person to ever live. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

This would be a de facto racial quota, mandating that no policy can alter the racial demographics of a given school bsky.app/profile/mike...

ah we are going to get some nice reverse disparate impact where having too many black people is evidence of anti-white discrimination

Lots of questions here, chief of which is: Did *anyone* step in and say this seems like a bad idea?

A vote for Michele Tafoya is a vote for Donald Trump. A vote for me is a vote to hold Trump accountable for his chaos, cruelty, and corruption.

this describes one of my closest friendships. 20 years of us sending each other the most heinous stuff we can find.

if you were wondering whether Alito's book is an embarrassing crock of shit, I can now officially answer your question with a resounding yes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

So disparate impact for reverse racism, but no disparate impact for voting rights? Make it make sense.

Unconscionable to be on “X” at this point. Just a cesspit. Except for banking; I do my banking there & don’t see a problem.

Five top-7 teams lost today for the first time EVER No. 1 Georgia No. 2 Notre Dame No. 5 Indiana No. 6 Alabama No. 7 Texas And No. 3 Miami won in 2OT

I love that the score bug just says “Nooo”

I swear to god, where the hell does the "lawyer and attorney are different" thing come from? All three major models are regurgitating the claim, but there aren't any sources that really back it up. Even the ones the AI's cite when pushed don't really stand for that proposition.

Okay, so @kathryntewson has discovered a set of linked, commonly controlled websites that are authoritatively giving false information on the difference between "attorney" and "lawyer," and are almost certainly AI generated. I want to talk about why AI gets this wrong.

New piece: the new digital divide - rich kids get human teachers, poor kids get shitty AI. But we can fight this, because parents, students, and teachers all hate it. Gift link:

“everything is phone, everything is gambling, and nobody knows how to be around each other in public” said @girinathan.bsky.social And now this, involving a former Gopher tennis player. Sigh. www.nytimes.com/athletic/769...

Tom Cruise, a bad person who gets away with it, all but wears a sign in Digger that says this is his demonstration of how people like him get away with it. It's like hearing gallows humor from an executioner or a confession that there will never be a confession. I can't believe it's funny

Yesterday, my college freshman called me for a whole hour. To vent. Classes are hard, coach yells at practice, the food is ass, the college bubble is tiny. But also, he says none of this is true, and he just needed to yap? I have now reached the receptacle for complaint stage of parenthood.

andrew sullivan getting the facts wrong while regurgitating braindead racist memes? crazy